"You are a little soul carrying around a…" — Epictetus
"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."
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353 Quotes by Epictetus
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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people…
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and…
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Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
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Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not…
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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More Carrying Quotes
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the…
— Lord Acton
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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads…
— Russell Baker
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it…
— Otto von Bismarck
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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending…
— Erma Bombeck
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I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true…
— Bono
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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live…
— Les Brown
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And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any…
— Madeleine Albright
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
— Taylor Caldwell
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I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable…
— Samuel Alito
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When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got…
— Dick Cheney
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.
— Sparky Anderson
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